Bands that tell stories over the course of their discography

[wolfking]

I quite like this idea.  I was thinking about this today.  You know how bands connect songs and tell stories from album to album to make one story or recurring theme.  It's a nice touch instead of whole concept albums which sometimes can get drawn out.  Here's some examples I can think of from the top of my head;

Dream Theater - 12 Step Suite

Metallica - Unforgiven 1, 2 and 3

Sonata Arctica - End of This Chapter, Don't Say a Word, Caleb

Rush - Fear - The Enemy Within, The Weapon, Witch Hunt, Freeze

Iron Maiden - Charlotte the Harlot, 22 Acacia Avenue, Hooks in You, From Here to Eternity


Anyone else have any of these type of things?  I'm sure there's heaps of prog ones I have no idea about.

[LTE]

Don't listen to them, but don't Coheed and Cambria tell a story over all their albums?

[wolfking]

Don't listen to them, but don't Coheed and Cambria tell a story over all their albums?

I have one of their albums but it didn't really do anything for me.  An epic idea though.

Actually, Iron Savior tell a story over all their albums also.

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

Ok, although I haven't completed it, but Ayreon's discography is a huge story. As in, all of their albums are connected, not only selective tracks.

[Nick]

Ayreon and Coheed have both strong all their albums together.

Also Roswell Six has two albums and a third eventually on the way that all follow the same story.

[wolfking]

I have quite a few Ayreon albums, I never knew they were all connected.  I should research that.

[Perpetual Change]

I have quite a few Ayreon albums, I never knew they were all connected.  I should research that.

The connections of some a are quite arbitrary, though. Like the only way THE is connected is by the terrible ending.

[wolfking]

I have quite a few Ayreon albums, I never knew they were all connected.  I should research that.

The connections of some a are quite arbitrary, though. Like the only way THE is connected is by the terrible ending.

You didn't like that ending.  I thought it was quite good myself, but I understand were you are coming from if you think it's abrupt and a twist that should never have happened.

[Perpetual Change]

I mean, if the would have waited for the song to end, or at least for James to finish his note, I wouldn't have cared as much.

[King Postwhore]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the first 3, The Deer Hunter CD's are a story.

[Ravenheart]

Nightingale's first 4 albums (The Breathing Shadow, Closing Chronicles, I, and Alive Again) all follow one story line, with I as the prequel to all of it.

[Dimitrius]

Don't listen to them, but don't Coheed and Cambria tell a story over all their albums?

Yep, all their albums tell one story.

[Seventh Son]

Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard

the whole album is about the Hero's Journey. If you don't know what that is, take a gander:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

I fucking love this album btw

[glaurung]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the first 3, The Deer Hunter CD's are a story.

Yes they are. There will be three more acts to the story released in the future.

[Adami]

Iced Earth - The Something Wicked story.

PoS - The Perfect Elements pt. 1 and 2

Kamelot - Epica and The Black Halo



By the way I don't think the Unforgiven songs by metallica are connected. At least not unforgiven 3. That song has nothing to do with the other two.

[yorost]

Saga, over most of their career, did The Chapters, which when completed turned into a two disc live album.  They did some chapters each album, and completely out of order, until they got to the final count or somewhere around 20.

[Adami]

Oh, also Rhapsody. All of their albums are one big story.

A lame story, but still a story.

[veronica]

Saviour Machine had this thing where they went through all of Revelations over a couple (4? I have no idea) of albums. Totally LOL, if I remember correctly

[Zantera]

Even though they've only made 1 album yet, i'd say The River Empires would fit here.

[sonatafanica]

Sonata Arctica - End of This Chapter, Don't Say a Word, Caleb

I'm pretty sure that "Juliet" from the latest album added on to the story, but it's nowhere near as fucking awesomely as Caleb is.

stalker songs are pretty cool

[kirbywelch92]

I'm not really a huge fan of the idea, just seems to kind of appeal to 14 year olds that purvey the Hot Topic for merchandise.

[sonatafanica]

wat

[glaurung]

 

[Orbert]

Saga, over most of their career, did The Chapters, which when completed turned into a two disc live album.  They did some chapters each album, and completely out of order, until they got to the final count or somewhere around 20.

16, but otherwise yeah, that's correct.  The amazing thing is that the first eight came out years ago, then they stopped, then another eight showed up, and they fit together very well.  "Chapters Live" is a pretty good album, too.

[LudwigVan]

Riverside - Reality Dream trilogy (1st three albums)

Megadeth - Hangar 18 > Return to Hangar

Dream Theater - Metropolis > Scenes From A Memory

[Orbert]

Rush: Cygnus X-1, Book One
Rush: Cygnus X-1, Book Two: Hemispheres

[KevShmev]

The Final Cut is sort of an extension of various themes from The Wall, albeit a mediocre one.

[Seventh Son]

I'm not really a huge fan of the idea, just seems to kind of appeal to 14 year olds that purvey the Hot Topic for merchandise.

Fail Post of 2010 confirmed

[skydivingninja]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the first 3, The Deer Hunter CD's are a story.

Yeah.  There are supposed to be three more albums in that story as well.

First ones I thought of were Coheed & Cambria, Dear Hunter, The Cygnus Duology and Fear Quartet (Rush), and, of course, Metropolis parts 1 and 2.

[Zydar]

Iron Maiden - Charlotte the Harlot, 22 Acacia Avenue, Hooks in You, From Here to Eternity

Oh, I didn't know that FHtE was part of that "saga"

[Nick]

I can't believe I didn't think of Riverside...

The Final Cut is sort of an extension of various themes from The Wall, albeit a mediocre one.

Although it's different, I find that The Final Cut was only a very minor step down in quality from The Wall.

[LeeHarveyKennedy]

Marilyn Manson had a three album run (Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood) that told a story in reverse. They're also easily his three best albums.

[Ravenheart]

Several of Amorphis' albums's concepts were all lifted directly out of the Kalevala," a big epic of poetry.

[TheVoxyn]

Marilyn Manson had a three album run (Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood) that told a story in reverse. They're also easily his three best albums.

That Arrested Development reference made my smile in my pants.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Gong's Radio Gnome Trilogy.